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TIL there is a Truman Show-type village in the Netherlands created for dementia patients.

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LkmlQ TIL there was a Navajo WWII POW in Nagasaki who survived the atomic bomb & was tortured for being "of Japanese descent", despite his denial. When the Japanese realized the secret US military code was in Navajo, they forced him to translate, although it was nonsense to him as he didn't know the code.
p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
9jVM TIL about Irish trial marriages where there was one day out of the year where young couples joined hands through a hole in a wooden door. The trial marriage lasted a year and a day, at which time the marriage could be made permanent or broken without consequences.
rROX1 TIL Puritans were actually pro-sex for pleasure, and would censure parishioners who denied their partner sex or 3+ months.
o7MY TIL, in 1962 under Centralia PA,one of the largest mines in the US caught fire. The fire formed sinkholes and vented lethal amounts of carbon monoxide forcing the evacuation of residents.Today the town remains abandoned while the fire continues to burn and is expected to do so for another 250 years!